Tracks

LIFT is organized around five major topics, or tracks.

• Big Ideas
  From co-creation to citizen journalism via the copyright-less economy, technology and communications are changing the rules. Big ideas are those that concern us all.

• Design
  Design is about making people’s life better. We’ve invited designers from across the spectrum of design, from strategy to pixels, from screens to devices, from business structures to experiences.

• Emerging technologies
  From RFID (these identification chips embedded in objects) to nano tech, we are going to discuss technologies that are just starting to impact our world. Folks from the labs are going to take off their white coats and tell us what’s coming.

• Global Solidarity
  Geneva is not only the place that saw the web come to life. It is also a major humanitarian center of excellence with hundreds of organizations having their headquarters around the lake. We invited speakers representing this constantly evolving field, in which solutions to complex problems don’t merely improve lives, but save them.

• Internet
  Last but not least, the spine of all the above. It gave many of us our careers, our passions, and it sustains much of our daily life. We’re inviting speakers who are pushing the evolving definition of what the Internet is and can be.